The repukes in the reddest county in TX are scared..very scared

[rainbow4321]

I volunteered at a voter registration drive booth at our city's festival this weekend.
It was a non-partisan drive that just happened to be in a booth with Obama gear....and a lifesize cut out of Obama in the front of the tent/booth :-) It was PACKED...people were coming in droves. I lost count of how many I helped register after a while and the other volunteers were just as busy. Even if someone told me that they were already registered as they walked by I gave them info on early voting in TX. At one point I was registering 3 people at a time.
In the middle of the rush I looked across at a grassy area from our booth, and who do I see...2 very grouchy looking older guys staring us down with their arms crossed. They were wearing "Sarah" polo shirts and pins!! They were there for a while, mumbling to each other and giving disapproving looks. Word going around was that the repukes also had a booth around the corner. I assume they sent their little operatives over to see what we were doing and how we were doing it.
Maybe it was just a coincidence but sometime after that a guy and girl came up to the front of our booth and asked who were were registering for...Obama or McCain. I smiled and said "both..it's voter registration for anyone that wants to register"

Keep in mind that this is a county that the repukes have had a stranglehold on forever..usually goes 70-30.

WHAT are they so scared of?? Scared enough to stake out our booth.

I know why. We were told that since the primaries, the blockwalks and registration drives being done in this county alone (as of last week, I guess), there have been over 20,000 people registered to vote. And county Dem volunteers are not done yet. We have til Oct 6th!

And let me tell ya..people were posing and taking pictures with that cut out so much that they were lined up in front of it. The whole time I was there it was flash, flash, flash, flash!!












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[gristy]

1. Thanks for sharing your experiences. That cutout is great!

[Top Cat]

2. Thanks for the post

[thewiseguy]

3. Thanks and they should be scared!

:bounce:

[blonndee]

4. Lemme guess. Is it Potter County?

And more importantly, thank you for your hard work! It's tough being a lonely blue among reds.

[rainbow4321]

5. Collin. Reddest of the red in TX!

It's a 3 day festival that is expected to have 70,000 people in attendence this weekend.

[blonndee]

7. Keep up the good fight!

It's so good to hear these stories.

[tanyev]

17. You're at the balloon festival!

Sweet.

[rainbow4321]

18. I think half the city was there!

:D


I hadn't been there in over 10 years..and after dealing with the crowds I remembered WHY I had not gone for ten years. You can see the balloons just fine from area parking lots around the festival without having to pay to park or deal with the sea of people in the festival itself. If I were to get UP and outside at 6 or 7 am, I could actually sit on my front lawn and watch the balloons flying overhead since they do the morning balloon launch and fly over my neighborhood. Guess it is one of those local events we take for granted since we've been here for so long. So to see wall to wall people last night in person was amazing.


To be fair, and to not get any trolls foaming at the mouth here going "AH-HAH!", let me add the booth did have a few McCain items, also, that someone went over and purchased from the repuke camp.

So it **WAS** a nonpartisan environment. Which is probably more than we can say for the repuke booth, I'm sure.

[and-justice-for-all]

6. They are scared everyone will get a fair shake...

They are scared they will lose their guns, which the will not.
They are scared that minorities will no longer be second class citizens.
They are scared of the dark.
They are scared someone they don't know, will make a choice they don't like.
They are scared of everything that should be and hug what shouldn't be.

They dug their grave, now they are going to lay in it.

[progressoid]

8. Fantastic!!

This eases the pain of my night with 3 republicans.

[TexasLady]

9. hot DAMN I love hearing stories like these!

I live in a red red county too. Yesterday I had to drive through Crawford, and a town just near it, was pathetic. One of the businesses on the main road had a huge sign on their door with a lot of stuff I couldn't read because it was so small, but in the center of it I read Barack HUSSEIN Obama. :puke:

On a good note, I drove through a different town, and saw quite a few Dem signs for a local guy running for office here, and I saw a few Obama signs in the yard.

I actually saw my FIRST McCain sticker on a big ol truck yesterday. Wow, what if Texas went...blue...ya never know!

[rainbow4321]

10. I have seen a total of 2 McLame bumper stickers in 2 months

That's it. Two. In 2000 and 2004 it you couldn't drive around and find a car withOUT a W sticker.

[rick_astley_lover]

15. REPORT: Southern Idaho

09.21.08.

Little-To-No sign of McCain campaign support either.

Four years ago, "W" was on every other car and yard.

As one of the "home bases" of "the republican base",
it seems Idaho Republicans has adopted a philosophy that
"No Advertising Is Good Advertising".

In my experience, people vote "R" in high numbers
without thinking much about it.

"No Advertising = Good Advertising" philosophy can only work
in fundamentally unthinking "R" voting states.

I'm interested to see what percentage third-party candidates
impact standard "R" voting.

I've seen way more Ron Paul support than John McCain,
easily 10x1.

And who knows what impact Bob Barr will have on that same base.

It's going to be interesting.

...from the idaho democratic caucaus, 2008 page on wikipedia
Illinois Sen. Barack Obama won 15 of Idaho's 18 delegates,
44 of the 45 county-level caucuses, and the support of
79 percent of caucus attendees statewide,
his largest margin of victory in any state
during the 2008 presidential primary season

[Mimosa]

11. You volunteers are the beating heart of the campaign: THANK YOU!!!!!

All I'm able to do is give money and share info on the net. I'm an MS patient.

You who are out there walking, talking and sharing yourselves are making it happen.

The photos and stories make me happy and keep me from getting depressed. We love you.

[KathieG]

12. Great to hear! Thanks for sharing!

[TTUBatfan2008]

13. Reddest of the red eh?

Hmmm...I'm in Midland. That's about as red as it gets. 90% of the people here worship Bush.

[mrJJ]

16. Midland/Odessa

Midland/Odessa? Your in Bushies backyard; hometown to Laura and transhrub Bubble Boy Bush.

[TTUBatfan2008]

23. Yes, that would be correct...

[MagickMuffin]

14. I think someone from your group needs to do a little sleuthing on them

Find out if they turn people away who aren't voting for McCain. If they are expressing who to vote for they should be reported to the County Elections office.

[MadrasT]

19. Thanks for the report. I want a life size Obama!!! n/t

[LanternWaste]

20. In D/FW...

n the D/FW area, McCain's been running spots during prime time over the past two weeks. It makes me curious as to whether the GOP perceives TX as an in-play state, else why waste the money in TX?

[tanyev]

27. That's exactly what I was wondering.

I was stunned when I first saw one of his ads a couple weeks ago. I don't recall seeing any ads in 2000 or 2004. Just the thought that he feels he needs to advertise in Texas put a little smile on my face.

[rainbow4321]

30. Palin is supposed to be swinging thru TX Oct 2-3 for fundraising

Will be interesting to see if she follows thru with it. I know she cancelled in a few other states (California and Florida?). My guess is that her handlers will plop her in the middle of a Highland Park zillionaire's home to collect the money and then whisk her away quickly. We'll probably get a photo op of her doing something Ike recovery-related that will be completely staged...
Think she is scheduled for Dallas, Houston,and San Antonio visits.

[Dem_4_Life]

21. That is exciting and great news!

They should be scared and Texas keeps getting bluer and bluer with each election!!!

:toast:

[populistdriven]

22. ROFL @ hands with glasses

[trashcanistanista]

24. Great news!

Same thing happened at our fair booth in a red district of Northern Cal. We were spied on all day by rethugs, registered a ton of voters and sold out on the first day of our Obama stuff. Where did you get the lifesize Obama cutout? That is a wonderful idea! If we had one of those I think we would have had massive crowds instead of just huge crowds! Thanks for this story! It set my mood for the day.

[rainbow4321]

25. I have no idea where it came from

I just signed up to volunteer, I didn't organize it. I never did ask the woman who was there running the event where she got it.
But it was a magnet, let me tell ya. Some of us were in front of the booth as crowds were walking by and you could see their eyes light up as they saw it...most drifted over our way and it gave us a chance to ask them if they needed to vote or if they needed information about voting.
One guy was so sweet, he saw it and said "so do we have to pay to take a picture with it?" Once he found out that anyone could and there was absolutely NO money needed he started taking pics of his wife and family standing next to "Obama". Two young girls came along and one was going to take a pic of the other standing next to it til **I** offered to take the pic so they BOTH could be in it.

[codjh9]

26. Good for you!!!! Yeah, I'm a former D/FW resident - on TWO occasions, ugh, but

that's one of the many reasons I got the hell outta there - the massive, overwhelmingly fundie/conservative Axis of Evil in that area. :^)

[lovelydem]

28. I want that cut out!

okay so I have crush on him

[feddup]

29. I saw one of those cutouts too at our farmers market

Lots of excitement and people lining up to take pics! My 11-yr old was so excited she spent all of her allowance on an Obama shirt covered in buttons!!

[chill_wind]

31. I love reading reports like this.. K & R n/t